On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 08:02:05PM +0200, Bob Vloon wrote: > Hi, > > BM> Any ideas about how to fix? > > What about /var/lib/dpkg/available-old? Is it corrupted also? Yes. dpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1: field name `ôh²Îñb ' must be followed by colon dpkg: --compare-versions takes three arguments: <version> <relation> <version> -- Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org